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Wikimedia Commons volunteers have created and shared some truly amazing images, which are free to re-use for any purpose, as long as you attribute their work in the way that they've asked. Here are a few examples;

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+'''[[commons:Welcome|Wikimedia Commons]]''' volunteers have created and shared some truly amazing images, which are [[commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia|free to re-use]] for any purpose, as long as you attribute their work in the way that they've asked. Here are a few examples;
-[[File:Freshwater Beach, Manly from The Powerhouse Museum.jpg|300px|Freshwater Beach in Sydney circa 1900]]
+[[Image:Dawn at swifts creek panorama.jpg|thumb|340px|left|Dawn at [[w:Swifts_Creek,_Victoria|Swifts Creek, Victoria.]]]]
+[[Image:Melbourne Docklands - Yarras Edge - marina panorama.jpg|thumb|340px|left|[[w:Docklands,_Victoria|Melbourne Docklands]]]]
+[[Image:Sydney skyline at dusk - Dec 2008.jpg|thumb|left|340px|[[w:Sydney|Sydney]] skyline at dusk]]
-Did you know that Wikimedia hosts [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_Australia hundreds] of images and media related to the '[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Australian_History History of Australia]', including hundreds of images from the collections of [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Powerhouse_Museum leading] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_State_Library_of_NSW cultural] institutions.
-You can get involved in working on a collaboratively written textbook [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Australian_History here], or browse through it as a reader and student. There are thousands of such works in development at '[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikibooks]', a Wikimedia Foundation project.
+:'''[[commons:Category:Featured_pictures_of_Australia|see the full selection here...]]'''